Vashist Deelchand
Imperial College London
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BMJ | 2011
Jane Carthey; Susannah Walker; Vashist Deelchand; Charles Vincent; William Harrop Griffiths
Healthcare organisations use policies and guidelines to standardise and clarify care and improve efficiency, productivity, and safety. But Jane Carthey and colleagues are concerned that their burgeoning number makes it impossible to distinguish the essential from the irrelevant and is affecting compliance
BMC Health Services Research | 2011
Susan Burnett; Vashist Deelchand; Bryony Dean Franklin; Krishna Moorthy; Charles Vincent
BackgroundIn Britain over 39,000 reports were received by the National Patient Safety Agency relating to failures in documentation in 2007 and the UK Health Services Journal estimated in 2008 that over a million hospital outpatient visits each year might take place without the full record available. Despite these high numbers, the impact of missing clinical information has not been investigated for hospital outpatients in the UK.Studies in primary care in the USA have found 13.6% of patient consultations have missing clinical information, with this adversely affecting care in about half of cases, and in Australia 1.8% of medical errors were found to be due to the unavailability of clinical information.Our objectives were to assess the frequency, nature and potential impact on patient care of missing clinical information in NHS hospital outpatients and to assess the principal causes. This is the first study to present such figures for the UK and the first to look at how clinicians respond, including the associated impact on patient care.MethodsProspective descriptive study of missing information reported by surgeons, supplemented by interviews on the causes.Data were collected by surgeons in general, gastrointestinal, colorectal and vascular surgical clinics in three teaching hospitals across the UK for over a thousand outpatient appointments. Fifteen interviews were conducted with those involved in collating clinical information for these clinics.The study had ethics approval (Hammersmith and Queen Charlottes & Chelsea Research Ethics Committee), reference number (09/H0707/27). Participants involved in the interviews signed a consent form and were offered the opportunity to review and agree the transcript of their interview before analysis. No patients were involved in this research.ResultsIn 15% of outpatient consultations key items of clinical information were missing. Of these patients, 32% experienced a delay or disruption to their care and 20% had a risk of harm. In over half of cases the doctor relied on the patient for the information, making a clinical decision despite the information being missing in 20% of cases. Hospital mergers, temporary staff and non-integrated IT systems were contributing factors.ConclusionsIf these findings are replicated across the NHS then almost 10 million outpatients are seen each year without key clinical information, creating over a million unnecessary appointments, and putting nearly 2 million patients at risk of harm. There is a need for a systematic, regular audit of the prevalence of missing clinical information. Only then will we know the impact on clinical decision making and patient care of new technology, service reorganisations and, crucially given the present financial climate, temporary or reduced staffing levels. Further research is needed to assess the relationship between missing clinical information and diagnostic errors; to examine the issue in primary care; and to consider the patients perspective.
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control | 2012
Bryony Dean Franklin; Vashist Deelchand; Matthew Cooke; Alison Holmes; Charles Vincent
BackgroundIntravenous cannulation is undertaken in a high proportion of hospitalised patients. Much international attention has been given to the use of care bundles to reduce the incidence of infection in these patients. However, less attention has been given to the systems required to ensure availability of the equipment needed to support these care bundles. Our objectives were to assess how reliably the equipment recommended for a peripheral intravenous care bundle was available for use, and to explore factors which contributed to its non-availability.MethodsWe studied 350 peripheral cannula insertions in three NHS hospital organisations across the UK. Staff inserting cannulae were asked to report details of all equipment problems. Key staff were then interviewed to identify the causes of problems with equipment availability, using semi-structured qualitative interviews and a standard coding frame.Results47 equipment problems were recorded during 46 of 350 cannulations, corresponding to a reliability of 87%, or 94% if problems with sharps disposal were excluded. Overall reliability was similar in all three organisations, but the types of problem varied. Interviews revealed a variety of causes including issues associated with purchasing policies, storage facilities, and lack of teamwork and communication in relation to reordering. The many human factors related to the supply chain were highlighted. Often staff had adopted work-arounds to deal with these problems.ConclusionsOverall, 87% of cannulations had the correct and functional equipment available. Different problems were identified in different organisations, suggesting that each had resolved some issues. Supply chain management principles may be useful to support best practice in care bundle delivery.
Archive | 2011
Susan Burnett; Matthew Cooke; Vashist Deelchand; Bryony Dean Franklin; Alison Holmes; Krishna Moorthy; Emmanuelle Savarit; Mark-Alexander Sujan; Amit Vats; Charles Vincent
Archive | 2010
Susan Burnett; Matthew Cooke; Vashist Deelchand; Bryony Dean Franklin; Alison Holmes; Krishna Moorthy; Emmanuelle Savarit; Mark-Alexander Sujan; Amit Vats; Charles Vincent
Archive | 2011
Susan Burnett; Matthew Cooke; Vashist Deelchand; Bryony Dean Franklin; Alison Holmes; Krishna Moorthy; Emmanuelle Savarit; Mark-Alexander Sujan; Amit Vats; Charles Vincent
Circulation | 2011
Susanna Walker; Anthony McKay; Vashist Deelchand; Sanjay Gautama; Nick Sevdalis; Charles Vincent
Anaesthesia | 2011
Susanna Walker; Anthony McKay; Vashist Deelchand; Sanjay Gautama; Charles Vincent; N. Sevdalis; Nick Sevdalis
Resuscitation | 2010
Vashist Deelchand; P. Mullord; A. McKay; S. Walker; Nick Sevdalis; Charles Vincent
Resuscitation | 2010
S. Walker; A. McKay; Nick Sevdalis; Vashist Deelchand; S. Lambden; S. Gautama; Charles Vincent